Sun 7/11 @ 3 – 9:30PM
Yes, the largest drum circle NEO has ever seen will occur at Edgewater Park on Sun 7/11. Bring peace, love, energy… and perhaps a chair and a drum if you have one. Drum-less? No worries — community drums will be provided as needed. Go drum, dance and connect to the rhythm of life.
The day will also feature eco-friendly exhibits and demos.
http://HeartBeatDrumCircle.com
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Interviewing the main human subjects for this article was not easy. They offered “No Comment,” but had much to share. With glassy-eyed, pleasant expressions, they gazed out over their audience quietly teaching each visitor as he passed by. Why were the human subjects being so close-mouthed? After all, they are the stars in the spotlight, these humans are on display at BODIES:The Exhibition, but they are also dead and meticulously preserved.
From Cool Cleveland contributor Susan Schaul, who says the act of writing is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle. The challenge lies in getting the pieces to fit together and make sense.
eems that every time I pay attention to Lorain, I’m surprised at all they have going on. Last year I was impressed by all the weekend partying going on at Black River Landing at the north end of Lorain’s downtown on the east side of the Black River. This year I’m intrigued by the idea of making my getaway to a Lake Erie island on the Jet Express from Lorain rather than driving all the way to Sandusky or Marblehead.
You don’t want to miss Port Fest 2010. During the weekend of July 16th and 17th, the Lorain Port Authority celebrates its waterfront during Port Fest on the banks of the Black River. Rousing children’s rides and games, nautical art and apparel, music, and food will be available from 6-11 on Friday and 12-11 on Saturday. Browsing the event is free. Nashville recording artist Sarah Wilson entertains on Sat 7/17 (
From Cool Cleveland contributor Claudia Taller, whose passion for words has led to creation of the Lakeside Word Lover’s Retreats, an outgrowth of her work with Skyline Writers.
Laura Kennelly is a freelance arts journalist, a member of the Music Critics Association of North America, and an associate editor of BACH, a scholarly journal devoted to J. S. Bach and his circle.
From Cool Cleveland correspondent Mansfield B. Frazier mansfieldfATgmail.com. Frazier’s From Behind The Wall: Commentary on Crime, Punishment, Race and the Underclass by a Prison Inmate is available again in hardback. Snag your copy and have it signed by the author by visiting 
Nobody—and I do mean NObody—does Divas the way the Northcoast Men’s Chorus does Divas. I had no idea there even were so many, but they’ve convinced me. I am now a believer!
There were some differences between last year’s Come to the River by Apollo’s Fire and this year’s version. (By the same group, that is.) Some of the music was different, some of the performers were different, but the biggest change came in venue. In their 18th season, Apollo’s Fire finally made the big stage – at Cain Park in Cleveland Heights. This move necessitated one of the biggest changes in the company’s history: the vast space required a bit of amplification.
The Sansai Worm Farm is the dream of two brothers who started this business in their hometown of Cleveland, Ohio with the hopes of making Cleveland an example of how environmental and urban renewal can be accomplished at the same time. The dream was realized in 2005 with the purchase of a 32 acre property. The 17 acre facility, located in a converted inner city bombsite manufacturing factory, is also known as the former TRW Automotive Valve Plant in Collinwood. Now known as The Richard Melvin Building, the manufacturing facility has become the home to millions of red wiggler composting earthworms, who eat material, which othewise would go to landfills, for the harvest of worm castings which are premium organic plant additives. Sansai saves our planet from adding to dangerous methane levels produced at landfills. It also had plans to employ up to 400 people, from our neighborhood, in the next four years.
Review: Apollo’s Fire @ Cain Park 6/25/10
Apollo’s Fire, Cleveland’s Baroque Orchestra, offered a slightly re-arranged version of last year’s popular “Come to the River” program on a perfect summer evening at Cain Park in Cleveland Heights. The ensemble, led by Jeannette Sorrell, traditionally performs in more enclosed spaces than the semi-open amphitheater at the park, so the question of the night was “Can they do it? How will they sound amplified?” and “Can we even see them?”
The answers are “Of course,” “Not too bad,” and “Yes, pretty much.” The program, one that turned on the concept of an early American community, featured musical memories introduced by Sorrell who described her joyful feelings as a young teen when she first encountered Appalachia and its churches, barn dances, and fiddlers. Later the ensemble offered a re-creation of wagon travel in the old days (“Are we there yet, Mother?”) and a revival meeting (which was pretty tame–no hellfire and brimstone in sight–but very musical). Vocalists Sandra Simon, Abigail Haynes Lennox, Scott Mello, and Paul Shipper joined with Tina Bergmann (playing the hammered dulcimer), Sorrell (harpsichord), Rachel Jones (violin), Kathie Stewart (wooden flute and penny whistle) and Rene Schiffer (cello) plus dancers Matthew Olwell and Emily Oleson (percussive dancers–lots of toe-tapping) to show the large and enthusiastic crowd an evening of what the “good old days” might have been like.
The only thing I missed were the congregational echoes that an enclosed space produces when the program concluded with a sing-along of “Down in the River to Pray.” In a word: Apollo’s Fire offered a lovely American scrapbook filled with folk songs and tales (and spiced with a sprinkling of very old, but still funny, jokes).
Listening to and learning more about music has been a life-long passion. She knows there’s no better place to do that than the Cleveland area.
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